Giant planet or ‘failed star?’ Newfound mystery world blurs the lines

One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a relatively low-mass star has been discovered, thanks to the way the planet’s gravity drags its star around on its journey through space. The planet is the fourth world to be spotted in data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, which was designed to map … Read more

Unraveling the mystery of blue straggler stars

The globular cluster M53, imaged here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is home to mostly older stars – but also a population of strange, young-looking blue straggler stars. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Meet HD 65907, an imposter. It’s a star that appears far too young for its age. Astronomers have finally cracked the case of this … Read more

‘Silo’ Season 2 ‘Descent’: The mystery spirals deeper as we learn Solo’s real name… or do we?

Secret identities are fun for superheroes but not necessarily for suspicious and evasive characters on “Silo”, such as Steve Zahn’s Solo character. This childlike oddball whom Juliette discovered locked in the server vault in the abandoned Silo 17 has been tap-dancing around his backstory for the past three weeks, leading to all sorts of speculation … Read more